After five years of having the project nag me, my book on poroelasticity is at the Princeton University Press for production.
Along with my service as associate dean and faculty director of the Honors Program, I co-taught Tectonophysics with Cliff Thurber and a seminar with Mary Anderson covering benchmark papers in hydrogeology in the fall. The student presentations brought out a lot of interesting biographical information about the authors of the benchmark papers. I was also a discussion section leader with an undergraduate peer mentor of a freshman Honors course called "Ways of Knowing," which is a one-credit introduction to UW-Madison. One week I brought department alumnus Stuart Rojstaczer to the "Ways of Knowing" discussion. Stuart is now Professor of Hydrogeology at Duke and he was in town promoting his new book Gone for Good, which contains his many observations about university life.
On the research front, Dave Hart and I, with Tim Eaton and Ken Bradbury of the WGHNS put in a couple of observation wells and a pumping well to characterize the hydrogeology of the Maquoketa shale in Waukesha Co. Tim Masterlark has found that his poroelastic model of the 1992 Landers earthquake in southern California does a good job of predicting the location of the Big Bear earthquake, which occurred three hours later. Tyson Strand has been creating percolation models of multiphase fluid flow to simulate a laboratory sandbox experiment.
Alumni Day - Sesquicentennial Symposium May 7, 1999 - Herb Wang
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